TY - BOOK AU - Feith,Michel TI - Impure Comedy: Theory and Practice of Tribal Postmodernism in the Writings of Gerald Vizenor PY - 2003///. N1 - 95 N2 - Native American writer Gerald Vizenor uses the figure of the trickster as an affirmation of a genetically and textually hybrid, postmodern literary identity. A subversion of both mainstream discourse and idealized visions of the Indian, the trickster is a figure of figuration, a ?holotrope? mediating between oral and written forms of communication. The status of such ethnic postmodernism remains problematic: does it transcend ethnic literature or is it a new formulation of identity politics? UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2003-2-page-19?lang=en ER -